To allow the students
- to consider the organisations as complex systems interacting with the environment
- to spot the organisational logics crossing and structuring the institutions, particularly in terms of power, collegial administration, coordination, control, standardisation, work organisation, relationship with the environment;
- to spot the action logics leaning on these features differentiating various levels of piloting and of regulation
Main themes
- emergence of the systemic paradigm in the field of organisational analysis and of management: interests and limits
- historical survey of the main theoretical currents:Taylor, Fayol, Weber, Mayo, Lewin, Herzberg, Crozier, Mintzberg Special attention will be given to the underlying psychosociological postulates.
- Constituent dimensions of an organisation: structures, contingencies, goal systems, participants, internal and external influences, configurations and organisational forces.
- Theoretical survey of some general processes: communication, leadership, motivation, organisational culture
Content and teaching methods
To allow the students
- to consider the organisations as complex systems interacting with the environment
- to spot the organisational logics crossing and structuring the institutions, particularly in terms of power, collegial administration, coordination, control, standardisation, work organisation, relationship with the environment;
- to spot the action logics leaning on these features differentiating various levels of piloting and of regulation
Exercises : constitution of folders presenting (for a further analysis) the companies/organisations on the basis of documents collected during field visits, student jobs, web consulting
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)